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Silence and Society addresses the reality that social sciences have ignored the importance of silence in human communication. Without communication, there is no community and thus no society. Yet, as classic communication theory explains, communication must always deal with noise.
List of contents
PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Silence and Society: Below the Bottom Turtle
2. The Dead, the Living, and the Yet to Be Born-Never-ending Social Things
3. 1950-Conformity and the Crisis of the Idealized Individual
4. Westward Journeys: Searching for Silence
5. Clamorous Global Development - Democracy, Health, and Suicide in Silent India, with Vani Kulkarni
6. Slouching Toward Inequality-Entropic Inequality and the Death of Societies
7. Bad Noise Disturbs the Collective Mind
8. History's Failed Search for Identities-The Silent Self
9.
Fuckin' Old Man-Noise and Silence in Analytic Talk
10. The Silent Third: Augustine of Hippo, Charles Sanders Pierce, Erving Goffman
11. Icons and Social Fictions-Object Lessons/Many Kinds
12. Shit and other Fecal Matters at the Tail End of the Modern Era
13. Zygmunt Bauman on Liquid Waste, Being Human, and Bodily Death, with Makenna Goodman
14. What Would the Dead Have Said-Durkheim's Ghost, A Century Later
15. Father is Gone: The Dead Who Never Stop Talking
16. And That's Not All: Last Words from the Ashes, by Noah Lemert
About the author
Charles Lemert is University Professor and John C. Andrus Professor of Social Theory Emeritus at Wesleyan University, USA. He has written extensively on social theory, globalization, and culture. He is author of
Globalization: An Introduction to the End of the Known World (Routledge, 2015),
Why Niebuhr Matters (Yale University Press, 2011),
Structural Lie: Small Clues to Global Things (Routledge, 2008),
Thinking the Unthinkable: The Riddles of Classical Social Theories (Routledge, 2007),
Postmodernism is Not What You Think: Why Globalization Threatens Modernity (Routledge, 2005), and
Muhammad Ali: Trickster in the Culture of Irony (Polity Press, 2003). He is also co-author of
Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory (Second Edition, Routledge, 2022) and
Capitalism and Its Uncertain Future (Routledge, 2021), editor of
Social Theory: The Multicultural, Global, and Classic Readings (Seventh Edition, Routledge, 2021), and co-editor of
Globalization: A Reader (Routledge, 2010).
